Sunday, March 20, 2011

873. As is Randy's wont, he was enjoying some of the fine art of "video games" one fine evening, "fragging" the various "avatars" of his opponents. He did not feel that he was particularly good at it, but his opponents kept calling him a "nub" whenever he killed them, which he assumed was a good thing. But the mind of a genius can never turn off, and neither can the mind of Randall Munroe. As someone using the built-in voice chat protocol logged in and sounded disturbingly feminine, he had a breakdown.

Any one of these people could be a woman, and I've been KILLING them. And--oh God--what if one of them was MEGAN???????

Thinking about the possibility that he might be doing violence to women sapped all joy from the game. But of course, the popular internet blog "xkcd is frequently less than ideal and we would like it to be better" often calls him out for his white knighting. Of course! If you were forced to remember that people are human, and have real stories and quirks, you would hate playing FPS games! Mindless violence is terrible! Especially against women!!! I'M SORRY, MEGAN!!!!!!

874. I admit I have a seething disdain for people who obsess over "life hacks" like this. Far too many people I've known focus on these things. I used to hang out with people who name-dropped things like "inbox zero" and talked about how they managed their productivity all the time, and it was utterly loathsome.

So on some level I can get behind the sentiment here--these people are terrible and need to be mocked. But, as with most of Randall's satires, it doesn't mock, it merely presents something he thinks is ridiculous. "What if those productivity people just fuck around all day? LOLOLOLOL"

Not funny, Randy. I realize you're incapable of developing characters or offering insightful commentary, but could you at least make an effort?

EDIT: Oh yeah, here is a fellow who is posting webcites of new XKCDs as they come up, so we can preserve his errors forever: http://xkcdwebcited.blogspot.com/

I'm tired of all this hate directed at vegetarians! Just because you think it's "stupid" to be a vegetarian doesn't mean you have to rip on a comic that's written by a vegetarian! Maybe if you didn't constantly stuff corpses into your mouth people wouldn't make fun of you for being overweight, did you ever think of that? Vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle!

YOUR website sucks. XKCD may not be always funny, but so what? Who cares? Are you jealous?This is the biggest troll i've ever seen.. dude, d you realise you took the time to actually set up a whole website just because you don't like a little webcomic... :D

Shut the fuck up, abdel, why do you think I am so excited at this tiny bit of comedy? Because it is so rare you moron. Geeze I mean what is even with these people up in and around here with their hating and their being haters.

My god. What have I become?I speak of tolerance, but don't even pretend to tolerate other people on the internet, instead accusing them of racism, and pitying them for some reason. I *am* the problem, after all, like Dad said I was.

@Kitten: Well, it does happen. Unless you believe Mole, but I am willing to call his bluff... I thought #873 was okay. Everyone here has found at least one comic within the last 100 that they thought was entertaining, although I don't think there's ever been more than a 40% consensus per "success".

"Mr. Munroe makes good comics frequently, you all are just stuck in your stubborn ways..."

He also makes shit comics frequently. More frequently, in fact, than he makes good comics. So your crap about 'being stuck in your stubborn ways' cut both ways, considering that most XKCD followers are really just fans of habit by now.

And don't call him 'Mr. Munroe.' It makes him sound somewhat important.

Anon 5:51:In 875, the joke is that a guy doesn't understand the common phrase " called".In 102, the joke is that a guy built a time machine and went back in time correcting only minor things important to himself and not to his female friend whose father died.

Abdel, please define troll for me. This is a site dedicated to hating on xkcd.

Under the conventional definition of troll, posting hateful comments on a hate blog is not trolling. Posting worshipful comments about xkcd here could be considered trolling (just as posting hateful comments on the xkcd forums could also be trolling).

Abdel, do you have some weird new definition of trolling, or are you just stupid?

Hmkay, so I didn't see the newest comic when I posted my last comic. As it turns out it actually is a funny comic...

...after 50 unfunny ones. Abdel, stop trying to convince yourself that Randall "makes good comics frequently". Once a year is not "frequently".

Back to talking about the comic: yes, it is funny. I actually laughed. It's shoddily drawn, but I guess asking for decent art is too much already. Let's stick with a good joke for starters.

Now, if Randall can actually manage to keep a good streak for a week, then I can start having hope for xkcd. For now, I think this is xkcd's swan song. The last remnants of humor before it gets back to devolving into an unstoppable shitstorm.

"You people have too much time. I repeat, YOU LOSERS NEED TO GET A LIFE AND GET LAID... :D"

Yea, Abdel, that's why I only replied to your comment hours later: because I waste all my time in xkcdsucks. You loser need to get a brain and start thinking.

Anon7:42, I believe Abdel is conforming to the modern definition of a troll, i.e., someone who disagrees with you. It's really sad that, just like irony, almost nobody seems to know what a troll is supposed to be.

The new comic was funny. I liked it. Yes, it may be a repeat of 102, but it's an improvement. The pacing is better, the current events are current, and the art aspect contributes to the joke, rather than just being pictures slapped onto a script. I'm impressed.

So, where do I start... I don't like talking about myself, but I'll let you know that I'm a single multi millionaire, a scholar in Islam, and I'm tall, and strong, and funny, and smart, aaaaaaand...... just kidding! :D

Haha, disappointed? Sorry, I'm not really the muslim version of Brad Pitt you were expecting to find :o). I'm more like some kind of muslim boy next door. Of course, it depends on where your door is.... mine is in Morocco!

Now, I don't think it's appropriate to say how smart and nice and whatever quality I may have. Instead, I'll tell you what I like and what I don't like and some facts.

I like : cinema, travelling, ancient history, technology, bicycle riding, ecology, science, international politics, and reading in general.I don't like: onions.What I'm doing with my life: I'm working in the IT field, while trying to get a master's degree in computer science.Flaws: My knowledge of Islam is not as it should be for a muslim my age, but I'm working on really hard. Also, I can't read classical arabic as you could expect me to! I speak french mostly, and moroccan arabic, but I don't think that will do you any good.

From a religious point of view, I am a muslim of course, but not one of those angry fundamentalists. I am very open to discussions, I do my best to keep an open mind on most issues. It is very important to me that you be the same. I'm also interested in other religions/philosphies...not that I plan changing religion...but I think it's very important to have a broad view on these things.

You can have a pretty good idea about my personnality if you know about MBTI psychological categories.

I have a thing for the number 8 (yes in "that way") so I will stop visiting Xkcd after #888. Because I hate you guys a little less I will leave this blog following #900. After that I will thoroughly delete every memory that Xkcd ever existed and ignore any future mentions of it.

@Booty a whole bunch of people seeming to take him seriously is failing? Or, if they weren't really taking him seriously and were just playing along, who do you think you are to crap all over everybody's fun for no reason?

Kissing Rob resulted in a net transfer to me of Avogadro's number of colloidal phlegmbots. Fortunately nary a cheese-like smegmabot was to be found after I hosed him down prior to our carnal congress.Thank godemichets for little mercies.

If these are the sort of comments that my comic inspires, then I give up. I mean I tried to educate the unwashed masses and /b/tardedness of the internet; but clearly I have failed.

I will be ending xkcd soon. I will just post the remainder of my year-long backlog, until early 2012. Then I will give up comic-making and become a regular IT consultant.

There's no reason to think that you pressured me into doing this. I have been reading this site since it's inception. It is not the negativity of the reviews that put me off, but the fact that your comments are fucking peristeronic* as shit.

^would've been more believable if it had been "around the end of 2012", you know, since geeks' worlds are centred around XKCD and-- ah, whatever. Fill in the gaps yourselves [not that you know a lot about that! [zing!]].

I admit, when I first saw the latest xkcd I really felt it was like the Ke$ha one- that Randall just found out about the three wolf moon shirt in his Wikipedia/TVTropes travels and decided to make a comic about it. Points for realising it was old and turning that into the basis for a not-unclever joke though.

I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth.

What the hell is this?

Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.

I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.

Here is a comic about me that Ann made. It is my favorite thing in the world.

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